Hello, News Blog readers! Alex Klein here. I’m The Chronicle’s Editor for New Media and its chief proponent of Twitter. In the last few days, we’ve had nothing less than a Twitter explosion (twitsplosion?) at the office. Before this Monday, only a few of us were on Twitter. Now, only half a week later, most of the top editors and many other editors, writers and photographers have joined.
Some haven’t really caught the bug yet–Photography Editor Maya Robinson’s only tweet remains “I joined because of peer pressure.” Most, however, have gotten the hang of it, even if they’ve only been communicating with each other. If you want to expand your Twitter network–or want to get to know the people behind those tiny bylines and photo credits–click away! Here are 25 29 30 Chronicle staffers dipping their toes in the Twitter stream. Many will succeed. Some might fail.
- Chelsea Allison, Editor
- Eugene Wang, Managing Editor
- Shuchi Parikh, News Editor
- Ben Cohen, Sports Editor
- Maya Robinson, Photography Editor
- Julia Love, University Editor
- Emmeline Zhao, University Editor
- Sean Moroney, Online Editor
- Hon Chu, Design Director
- Matthew Iles, Sports Managing Editor
- Naureen Khan, Local & National Editor
- Will Robinson, Local & National Editor (and Editor-elect)
- Nate Freeman, Features Editor
- Chase Olivieri, Sports Photography Editor
- Austin Boehm, Editorial Page Managing Editor
- Lisa Du, Wire Editor
- Tim Britton, Towerview Editor
- Meredith Shiner, Senior Editor
- Zachary Tracer, Local & National Associate Editor
- Julius Jones, Local & National Associate Editor
- Catherine Butsch, University Associate Editor
- Laura Keeley, Sports Associate Editor
- Madeline Perez, Sports Associate Editor
- Andrew Hibbard, recess Film Editor
- Kevin Lincoln, recess Literature Editor
- Michael Naclerio, Photography Associate Editor
- Michael Blake, Member, Independent Editor Board
- Dan Romero, Member, Independent Editor Board
- Dean Chen, Lead Developer
- Alex Klein (me), Editor for New Media
Wait! There’s more! Duke’s head football coach, David Cutcliffe, joined Twitter today after Sports Editor Ben Cohen showed him the ropes. You can find him (and follow him) here: @DavidCutcliffe. (Also, Cohen’s alter-ego Sports Blog Twitter account is here: @ChronicleSports.)
Our freshly-minted, and still very rough-around-the-edges, Chronicle account is here: @DukeChronicle. It’s not properly set up yet, but follow it and stay tuned. It’ll be up and running in no time.
Please use the comments section below this post to tell me about more Duke students, professors, staff members, coaches, or entities (libraries? departments?) who use Twitter. And you, dear reader: You should join Twitter, too! If you do, be sure to leave your username in the comments.
Update–Feb 20, 5:40p: Andrew Hibbard, recess Film Editor, just announced that recess literally just joined Twitter. Here they are: @chronicleRecess.
Update–Feb 22, 5:58p: We’re up to 29!
Update–Feb 23, 8:36p: Magic No. 30.
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Great news! I’m a huge proponent of Twitter. The question is now how will the Chronicle use Twitter? As an information gathering tool, a megaphone for articles and ideas or something new? I know that many of the journalists (I’m in PR) I have heard speak about Twitter prefer it as a communication device. I’ll be interested to evolution of it all. And I’d be happy to share my ideas, just follow me on Twitter!
Nice article. I’ve also been wondering who is using Twitter on campus..so I’m glad you posed the question. The Reference Desk in Perkins Library is trying it out.
Check us out: http://twitter.com/askref
Would be interested to hear any ideas you or anyone else have about how campus entities (like the library) could be using Twitter. Thanks!
The Duke University Center for International Studies has been on Twitter since December 2008.
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